Outside Reading-Week 2, Post B

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Dear Jeannette,

I love your book The Glass Castle. I have really gotten into it and really felt connected to you. Your book is so descriptive; it makes me feel as if I am sitting in the corner watching everything happen to you.

I could not imagine living your life. Though you may have had a few high points like when you lived in Phoenix, the most of your life do far seemed pretty miserable. I think your parents were to blame. Your mother spent all her money buying art supplies instead of food, and all her time painting instead of taking care of you. Your father was always off drinking and gambling wasting your money. I think that their carelessness made you more independent. They began to depend more on you than you depended on them. You had to help your mom, a grown women keep her job “Miss Beatty threatened to fire mom, so Lori, Brian and I started helping Mom with her school work”(pg 74). I think that is ridiculous.

A lot of the events in your life seem to be repetitive; you or your parents get in some sort of trouble, and then you leave. Some places you go seemed to be better than before and others worse. It seemed as though you really loved your parents and were naïve of what harm they are truly doing to you and your siblings. I think that a lot of these horrible events have made you stronger, but have also slowly weakened you physicall(no food) and mentally(what is right and what is wrong). I hope that in the next parts of the book you life begins to improve.

-AQA